Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-22


passenger business, but haul cotton,
grain, vegetables ana milk from the
suburbs to the metropolis. The route
selected is nearly an air line, with only
one heavy cut. The Fort Worth and
White Settlement Railroad will pay from
the jump.
The Texas Traffic Association, now in
session al Houston, has agreed on wool
rates as follows: From ell points east of
Fort Worth and north of Laredo, to
st. Louis S. per 100, pounds; to Chicago
/ Sl,3O; to New York. $145 Rates from
points west of Fort Worth, where such
wool is produced, have not been an
nounced, if indeed agreed upon.
A we'll known railroad engineer who
! has made several locations in Texas says
! that the General Manager of the Chicago,
! Rock Island and Pacific stated positively
! that the company would enter Texas in
! the8fall oTIearlv winter and Wichita Falls
would be the first city built to. When
asked why Wichita Falls, he answered it
was simply q question of grade, the
easiest grades to be obtained were TO
Wichita Falls. The engineer in question
is acquainted with Texas.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe officials
stated last night that the AtChison and
Gulf Roads were only fourteen and a half
miles apart. The Arkansas City extension
is four miles from the Canadian on the
north and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Fort Worth extension ten and half
miles from the Canadian on the south. 1t
looks very much as if the gold spike that
is to unite the two great roads will be
driven on the 28th of April. VINO will do
the driving is not yet known.
The Southern Kansas of Texas, it is
explained by one of the officials of the
road, includes all the track in Texas on
the Kiow6 extension, as we'll as the road
to be built from Fort Worth to a junction
with the KiOWa extension in Oldham
county. The Southern Kansas was char
tered in Kansas and comprises all the
road in Kansas and the Indian Territory.
There is at present a heavy force
at work in the Panhandle on the Southern
Kansas of Texas, and track is down some
distance in Texas. This road will probG-
bly, cross the Fort Worth and Denver in
Carson county, and after leaving Texas
will be built on an air line to Santa Fe,
with branch to Albuquerque.
A special from Denver to the 3Iobe-
Democrat says: Jay Gould and S. II. H.
Clark of the Missouri Pacific Railroad,
and Sidney Dillon, president of the Den
yer, Texas and Fort Worth Railway, ar
rived here at O'Clock this afternoon
and left again this evening for the east.
They spent last night at Pueblo. Their
coming was in the interest of the extreme
western extension of the Missouri Pacific,
and their proposed connection with the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth Road.
Jay Gould said to reporter
this evening that the Ness City branch of
the Missouri Pacific was being built west
ward at the rate of two miles per day.
This branch is to connect with the
Denver, Texas and Gulf road at
Granger, twelve miles from Colorado
Springs, and trains are to run into
Denver over this line. It is
now known that Gould is behind the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth line, and
that this line, which will run from
DeHVer to point on the Gulf of Mexico,
will be operated in connection with the
Missouri Pacific. 1t is said that the two
roads will build and occupy depot to-
gether.
At 10 o'clock yesterday morning q
number of prominent railroad officials
arrived in this city in a special car. The
gentlemen were al stockholders of the
Southern Kansas of Texas, and came to
hold their annual meeting in Fort Worth, |
the main Office headquarters and initial !
point, of the road. The gentlemen were |
MessTs. George Seely, Waters S. |
Davis, Webster Snyder, W. H. Masters
and r. S. willis. Assistant Secretary J i
j. Mullane met them, and a stockholders |
meeting was held, ali the stock being !
voted. a board of directors was elected |
as follows: w. B. Strong, George Seaiv, |
Webster Snyder, l. T. Burr, A. W. Nick
erson, Alden Speare, Waters S. Davis, r. |
S. Willis and w. H. Masters. Immedi- |
ately after the adjournment of the stock
holders meeting the board of directors
assembled, ard quorum being present
elected the following officers: President,
W. B. Strong; first vice-p president and i
general manager, G. W. Smith; second
viCe-prCsident and chief engineer, A. A.
Robinson; secretary and treasurer, Z.
Wilder; assistant treasurer, G. L.
Goodwin; assistant secretary, J.. j.
Mullane; comptroller, J. P. White
head; general auditor, II. G. Glenn
ents; auditor, J. J. Mullane;
executive committee, W. B. Strong,
l. I. Burr and A. w. Nickerson. Other
business not of public nature was
transacted, when an adjournment was
had, and the gentlemen, taking carriages,
took a two hours drive over the CITY,
winding up by an inspection of Joseph H
Browns palatial establishment. At $40
the party left for Galveston, via the
and Texas Central.
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